Whitworth-Bengals lowballed

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(12-06-2018, 08:30 PM)3wt Wrote: I think that loyalty has always been a Brown family value.  We all have our blind spots and it's one of theirs in the sense that they give it to a fault and require it to a fault.

Remember the gag rule they imposed that lost one of our punters (last name Johnson I believe) his job?

And I can't help but feel that one of the reasons that they hired Tiger Johnson over Bill Walsh was 1) They were loyal to Tiger and 2) I don't think they felt Walsh was all that loyal to them, or should have been loyal enough to stay under Johnson.

So it may have played into their approach.  But I think Whit was sending them the message that he believed he was worth a multiyear contract and the Bengals just disagreed.

And they were wrong.

If ever anyone had a case for going opposite, it is MB.  If every decision you ever make is wrong...

Actually, most people, if they had a company that was guaranteed to reap a huge pile of cash annually, no matter how bad they were at their business, would surround themselves with friends and family. There are very few such buffers in the world. The Brown family will never win a championship until they actually strt trying nd that would only ever happen if they lost their golden goose and that will never happen.